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    Weed Matting

    I have two 60sqm drives both gravel both with the woven weed membrane, never had an issue in 8 years, sure some weeds take hold in the gravel but you can pull those out easily and to be fair we just spray ours once a year in march, job done. we used...
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    New sockets - from which ring?

    apart from those living in exposed locations who has had a power cut in the last 40 years.... you can almost tell which newspapers a person reads and takes their click bait as gospel... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dailymail+national+grid&atb=v395-1&ia=web
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    New sockets - from which ring?

    No it won't, most of the wiring will be going up to the first floor, so if you are prepared to take down a bit of plaster board from the ceiling for the wires to be dragged back to the new location its pretty easy. Wiring can be easily extended. The only issue will be where the meter is and how...
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    New sockets - from which ring?

    First off you can do what you like in your own house, second even though the wiring may be old it can still be perfectly serviceable. If it was me I would get the wiring checked out to see if its degraded, Isolate the each circuit at the circuit breaker and check for any green goo behind the...
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    Wires clarity

    My point was why... its going to be a right mess dragging in cables , changing the lighting back box to one that will take a socket. He has not identified what that circuit did or does... was it a for control under cab lights ? What cable size is it ? Where are you going to take the feed from ...
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    Wires clarity

    Its a lighting circuit with no earth so you cannot charge it to a socket as its just a live in and live out.
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    Immersion heater element RCD tripping

    its not difficult to test... multimeter will do the job, it could be the thermostat that has gone duff and you can replace that without draining down. see https://www.mmlplumbing.co.uk/testing-an-immersion-heater/
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    Cable connections/junction box- slight emergency

    No it never sets hard you just peel it off... and why would the connections need working on ?
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    Cable connections/junction box- slight emergency

    https://www.toolstation.com/raytech-magic-gel-ip68/p47003 pour it into the box and fill the box.
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    Cable connections/junction box- slight emergency

    or you could just gel pack it.
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    Replacement Smoke Alarms

    broadly but the aico unit has a base and the fireangle has a plug in module and tbh have not seen if the battery back up for the aico wifi is user swappable as is the fireangle
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    Replacement Smoke Alarms

    Fireangle do a system where the RF module just plugs into the base of the detector, they also do a combined panic, test and silence switch. They were brilliant for a 4 storey stairwell in a grade 2 building,.as the battery backup for the Rf is user swappleable. see...
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    How do I replace door seal on the bottom frame of a composite door

    they stretch in, get the end nearest the hinges in then apply tension and push up and in as you go along the door.
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    The London Mayor...

    The use of cannabis, all the party drugs, coke, mdma, etc, prescription drugs used by others than the prescription owner is so entrenched in British society that policing it is a joke... but apparently its still an issue for some. Realism in politics now there would be a thing of beauty.
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    Liverpool Ramming

    Essex ?
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    Liverpool Ramming

    As we know nothing why speculate... All that happens is that when a truth is established it sets up another conflict, the media said this, my mate said that, what are they hiding etc etc etc. This trial by media is not healthy, focus on the victims and leave it at that until a trial.
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    New Extension Straight Wall Query

    Get a snagger out to do a report, at least then you are armed for any fight, items like failure to dress the lead flashing to the tiles, use of untreated softwood for the fascias etc etc Building control really is not geared up to do quality control , they will get involved with items that are...
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    Cables in non-insulated stud walls

    why not ask them the basis for the tables, as its a scientific approach the source material will be freely available. Is there not a reference to the source in the book ?
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    Cables in non-insulated stud walls

    Or is it a reverse definition, if none of the following conditions apply then it is in free air.... there is some arcane rule of law around presumption on innocence which sets this premise and is followed in general scientific theory, the null and alternate hypothesis, whereby the alternate can...
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    Bye Bye Gary

    Why dance around ethnic cleansing, we define ethnic cleansing as The mass extermination or expulsion of people belonging to one ethnic or religious group by those of another. Tell me that's not happening... because from where I sit it clearly is, and before people start banging on about there...
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